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About the “lost” iPhone that was found in a bar in Redwood City…

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We reduced the price of our Punch-O-Meter app for a few days around the New Year. It was free from December 31-January 4 (originally $0.99). Early Monday, January 5, we changed to the price back to $0.99. Two hours later, Punch-O-Meter was taken out of the store!

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I have great news. DoApp’s ‘React’ iPhone app was nominated for 148apps.com’s “Best App Ever” contest in three categories. Click any or all links below if you agree:

Best Productivity Killer

Most Original User Interface

Best Kids Game

Voting ends January 6, 2009. Winners will be announced at the 2009 MacWorld Expo.

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Our “myBigAlarm” is now live on the App Store! Why’s it better? Well, first of all, it takes advantage of the iPhone’s great big screen by using BIG numbers, so you can see it from a distance — and when you’re eyes aren’t workin’ so great at some ungodly hour of the morning when that alarm goes off! But the best thing of all about this app is this: you can customize it to your liking, by (a) choosing your own colors, both text and background, and (b) you can also record your very own wake-up sound!  Or choose from lots of fun, pre-recorded sounds….much better than those standard ring sounds that come with the phone. All this for only 99 cents! (The myBigAlarm app also works with the iPod Touch –the new model comes with a speaker! — though you do have to attach a mic to the Touch to record a custom sound.)  More info here.

Let’s face it, it’s in their genes. And the latest traditional media story that includes us is a testament to that. Our part of the story is positive, but the overall focus is on developers who are having apps rejected. Here it is, on the front of the business section of yesterday’s (Sunday’s) St. Paul Pioneer Press: Local software developers struggle to meet Apple’s iPhone standards. (The photo with the story shows Ian, myself, and Pete — we look pretty happy, don’t we? Aren’t our little shoes cute?) Hey, we’re not struggling, but the other companies and developers cited in the story, who don’t yet have apps in the App Store, are — or so the story angle and headline seems to be saying. Sure, one of our apps, the Whoopie Cushion, was not accepted in our initial batch submitted — but we had five accepted so far, including three in the first week or so of the App Store’s life. So, we’re hardly hung up on the one that wasn’t accepted. (And many people are coming out in support of that one, both in countless emails to us, and in comments to this previous post on the Whoopie Cushion.) Read More »

A photographer only identified as “bjeung” has posted a fun set of images on Flickr that were made using our myLite app. He captured several shots of his iPhone screen casting colored light in a darkened setting, against a dark background. We assume the photographer was using the “Trippin’” setting of our app, which runs through all the colors available and lets you select the speed of the color change from 0.1 sec to 0.5 sec. We assume he set his camera for a timed exposure, on a tripod, and moved his iPhone around quickly to create these “drawings.”  Congratulations, bjeung — they’re cool!

This time, it’s a photographer who appears to be located in Australia, and who’s identified in a post at the Nikon Tree blog only as “kingGeorgefirst.”  When you click on “read the rest of the story,” you’ll be taken to this YouTube video entitled “bless outs thankyou,” which shows several images he captured with what he reports is a 30-second exposure. The name “Sam George” appears in the images, so perhaps that’s his real name.

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Check out this awesome use of our myLite app, submitted by Jeremy Amaral.  He posted a Flickr set called Lotus Pod Studies.  And be sure to take a look as well at Jeremy’s entire photostream.  He does some incredible work. Thanks for telling us about how you use myLite, Jeremy!

Well, almost a month — a day short, actually, since the App Store launched July 10. The iPhone 3G launch was July 11, but, if you were paying attention, you knew that people were able to get at the App Store on iTunes the day before and start downloading. We were lucky enough to have our “myLIte Color Strobe and Flashlight” app up on the store right from the inception (followed by two more within a week, MyTo-Dos and Magic 8 Ball by DoApp). There were about 500 apps in the store when it opened, and there are about 1000 as of this date. Again, if you were paying attention, you may have known we launched myLite at 99 cents, then made the decision late on July 11 to drop the price to the best one of all: FREE! And we announced that fact with a press release early the morning of July 12 (a Saturday). Read More »

It has been absolutely fantastic to watch the App Store take off! I think a lot of us at DoApp had some great “gut feelings” about what was going to happen with the iPhone 2.0 release, but we were all carefully pessimistic. It has been very entertaining to read the reviews, blogs, and rumors that wrap up the everyday soap opera that is the new iPhone software. This device is Apple’s new celebrity, and some users would love to see it succeed, while others would get pure enjoyment in watching it crash and burn. Apple has yet to show real weakness on this one. They have made some blunders in the past but, now that the iPhone is here, Apple’s strategy looks all the more smartly devised. I’ve been lured into their infrastructure with OS X, the iPod, iTunes, Safari, and now the iPhone.

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